CUGG Product Review

Freebyte Backup

James Wiegel

July 2007

However, I’ll be
the first to admit
that I tend to avoid the task. There are usually enough logistics
involved to put backups on tomorrow’s to-do list
indefinitely.

One reason I've
never liked doing
backups is because the files are usually stored in a compressed and
proprietary format, making them more of an
“archive” than a
backup. But I want easy access to the files, especially if my
computer crashes and I need to access them from another system
(which has happened).

Freebyte Backup is an
incredibly easy
and simple backup program to use. It copies the files to the
specified location AS FILES. You can set it to only copy those files
which have changed since the last backup (using the archive property
on each file).

You can create
multiple backup profiles to copy the same data to different
destinations, or filter though specific sources or file types to
consolidate specific data on your backup drive.

I
store everything I do in the “My Documents” folder, and
perform an
incremental backup, clearing the windows "archive" file attribute, and
copying files only if they are more recent. I've had no problems
with this method…and if I delete whole directories from
“My Documents”
I can go to my backup USB drive and find everything there, because it
is never deleted by the backup program even though it’s deleted
from my
computer.

Once a year I should make a DVD backup of my backup because I have lost files due to a corrupted backup drive before.

Please give Freebyte Backup a try, and ask me questions if you have any.